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We may leave childhood behind, but not our childhood selves, research finds. (Surprised?)

Chatty kids tend to become chatty adults. Roll-with-the-flow kids tend to become roll-with-the-flow adults. Impulsive kids ... humble kids ... insecure kids ... well, you can see where this is going. Personality traits tend to stick with us.

Researchers at UC Riverside, the Oregon Research Institute and the University of Oregon figured this out, with the help of a National Institute on Aging grant, by analyzing teacher personality ratings of children along with videotaped interviews of those now-adults four decades later.